her utter delight when she could
open and reply to her own emails
all by herself.

John SleMp

So what can you teach someone? If you look around, you could
find any number of willing students on topics ranging from cooking to computer skills to dance and
fitness. Your job presents many
opportunities to share what you
know. For example, you might be
a whiz at Excel and be able to pass
along a few tricks to coworkers.
You could even barter teaching for
a service you need.

The great thing about teaching is
that it gives you a whole new perspective about your body of knowledge. When the person you are teaching asks you a question,
it’s often an angle that you’ve never considered before.

But the very best thing about teaching is that you givesomething of yourself to another person, whether it’s teachingthat person to read, to fly, or to dance. Teaching may not bepart of your job description, but you can make it so. Teachingis a high calling, but something all of us can do. You may nothave thought you have the heart of a teacher, but give it a tryand that voice your student hears 20 years from now mightturn out to be yours. ✈. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Patricia Luebke (WAI #1954) is a New York City based free-lance writer, editor and marketing consultant.

How about finding an opportunity while at your job to give
a seminar or briefing? Sure, it’s a lot of work to prepare, but
being the teacher positions you as the expert—and by the
time you prepare your material, believe me, you will be an
expert. Teaching forces you to be a student as well. What’s
more, the visibility teaching a seminar gives you in your company could be quite a boost to your career.